Today is the 90th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 17, 2026
The nationalist coup started in the Morocco protectorate and encountered little resistance there.
Three year later, Franco defeated the last elements of the Republican forces in their last hold-out in SE Spain pic.twitter.com/ZfGNREm3Qs
“In true liberal education, the essential activity of the student is to relate the facts learned into a unified, organic whole, to assimilate them as the rose assimilates food from the soil and increases in size, vitality, and beauty.”
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) July 16, 2026
— Sister Miriam Joseph pic.twitter.com/ytOGxPThh9
Lee Kuan Yew on the Communist threat to Singapore. Sit your ass down and listen to this. pic.twitter.com/HFfB8ctgkH
— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) July 18, 2026
He’ll be telling his friends about this forever pic.twitter.com/AoNUl2EBji
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 17, 2026
Sweden got rich under laissez-faire and nearly wrecked itself trying to forget it. Between 1870 and 1970, Sweden ran one of the freest economies in Europe: low taxes, open trade, sound money, and entrepreneurs like the Wallenbergs and Ingvar Kamprad building world-class firms. By… pic.twitter.com/VFaWtOaFW2
— Handre (@Handre) July 17, 2026
Agatha Christie once remarked that she had never expected to grow rich enough to own a car or poor enough not to have servants.
— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) July 16, 2026
The reason this strikes us as bizarre today boils down to two names that you hear invoked a lot in the tech industry: Jevons and Baumol. One is… https://t.co/4uGZh2NtZ4
Life cycle of a strawberry pic.twitter.com/UR6JKaM0uV
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 17, 2026
In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.
— NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 (@japan_nobunaga) July 17, 2026
I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.
Six minutes later I was holding chicken.
I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water…
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